The pine stays green in winter.. Wisdom in hardship.
Norman Douglas
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
nation ideals
To find a friend one must close one eye To keep him, two.
friend eye find close
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
day lives
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
children
Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.
funny humor food
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
people
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
man home
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
man age character
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
man society
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
manners man work
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
man
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
education
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
happiness
As to abuse, I thrive on it. Abuse, hearty abuse, is a tonic to all save men of indifferent health.
health men
life wisdom
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